Andre Gill

Andre Gill , of his true name Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guines , born with Paris the October 17th 1840 and died in Charenton May 1st 1885, is a caricaturist and chansonnier French.

He is wire naturalness of the count de Guines and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, dressmaker originating in Landouzy-the-City in the Aisne. Under the Second Empire, its drawings appear in the satirical newspapers the Moon , which succeeds the Eclipse and the Street of his/her friend Jules Vallès, like in the Hullabaloo . He becomes the editor association of the russet-red Moon .

Some of its caricatures of men of its time remained famous: Leon Gambetta, Jean Raspail, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas father, Georges Bizet, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne, Adolphe Thiers.

Also Chansonnier with Montmartre, it attends the cabaret of the Assassins, which will become famous under the name Nimble Lapin, whose sign represents a nimble rabbit escaping from the pot: “Rabbit with Gill” or “, painted There A. Gill”.

Courteline said of him: “Gill, with oneself only, is a whole time, like Hugo a whole century. ” The poet Clovis Hugues has depicts it as follows:

Extremely like a large cock right perched

On its broad stone pins,

black Moustache in hook, eyelid

Where the eye never hid

Front which one would like empanaché

Of some felts with proud feather

Crayon of gold like a rapière

At the harshly hung point.

Its tomb is with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise with an expressive bust of Laure Coutan.

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